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Verena Battisti
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👩‍🔬 Postdoc Senior Researcher @University of Vienna
💊 Medicinal chemist specializing in computational chemistry, drug discovery & development, and antiviral research
📚 Science enthusiast | problem-solver | tech aficionado
🎧 Podcast lover | Potterhead
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Well, what more is there to say than... jup? 😅
January 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Chikungunya virus is now spreading locally in Europe!
The first indigenous case has been reported in Ile-de-France, and La Réunion Island is nearing an epidemic stage, with 138 cases recorded.
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Point sur la situation du chikungunya à La Réunion
La circulation du chikungunya s'intensifie à La Réunion avec 138 cas confirmés. La majorité des cas est recensée dans le sud et l’ouest de l’île, avec une dispersion géographique préoccupante. Le stad...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Happy Holidays! This year I made a small gingerbread village. 🍪🏘️🎄
December 25, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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ACADEMIA Life: Wrapping up the last meeting of the year with students so I can finally focus on my research! #scisky #ResearchReality
December 20, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Academics reading bedtime stories: oh let me write a paper about discussing health risks faced by Disney princesses!
December 18, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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Curious about industry R&D? Maria Fälth Savitski, Head of Computational Biology Boehringer Ingelheim, shared her career journey, insights into collaborative research in industry, and tips for early-career researchers with the @embl.org Careers Blog: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Screenshot of the EMBL Careers Blog website with the start of the blog post (click on the link to read the text) and a photo of Maria.
December 17, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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So this is happening. 271 MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0. Makes you wonder what we consider as reliable and properly peer review journals.

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Changes to the classification
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December 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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#Valneva reports 3-year antibody persistence for its single-dose chikungunya vaccine, IXCHIQ®! Take that, #chikungunya. 💪

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Valneva Reports Positive Three-Year Antibody Persistence Data for its Single-Shot Chikungunya Vaccine IXCHIQ®
The results confirm a strong and long-lasting antibody persistence across all age groups investigated.
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December 16, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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Is it normal to get so deep into your research that you start dreaming about talking molecules trying to find their home (aka proteins)? Or is it just me? 😅💭
December 12, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Best Advent news ever! Dark chocolate consumption is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes! 🍫

Thanks to the authors of this perfectly timed study. If anyone needs me, I’m busy prioritizing my health... with chocolate. 😇

#AcademicSky #science #ChocolateLove

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Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
Objective To prospectively investigate the associations between dark, milk, and total chocolate consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in three US cohorts. Design Prospective cohort studies. ...
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December 9, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Open Tenure Track Positions at the University of Vienna! 👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬
#univie is currently accepting applications for several
#tenuretrack positions across a range of disciplines. 🧪 🏛
Work with us to find answers to the questions for tomorrow. 🔍 ⤵ #academicsky
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December 6, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Hi Bluesky! 👋
I am a senior researcher who specializes in drug development. Nice to meet you all!

#HelloBluesky #Drugdevelopment #ComputationalChemistry
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December 5, 2024 at 10:27 AM